To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper 2010-08: Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Final Evaluation of Project GATE

To announce the release and availability of the Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws 2019.

To provide an updated directory of Federal civilian and military agencies that have requested detailed benefit payment data, which supports the Department of Labor’s quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To provide INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2019 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166 programs, and to notify grantees of the required submission of Standard Form (SF) 424 – Application for Federal Assistance, SF 424A – Budget Information (Non-Construction Programs), and Budget Narrative. This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) also provides guidance on high carry-in of funding at the end of PY 2018.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) provides a framework for standardizing the collection and reporting of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) self-service only participant information. A more standardized approach will help ensure more consistent and comparable data on the numbers and characteristics of individuals who self-access workforce investment system information, and the activities primarily accessed through the use of electronic technologies and financially supported by both WIA and Wagner-Peyser Employment Service resources.

In general, this TEN clarifies self-service performance reporting policy by reiterating the existing definition and reporting instructions for WIA self-service only participants, examining how those instructions impact WIA performance data, and offering a “roadmap” for consistent reporting across the states and territories.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides SCSEP state, territorial, and national grantees with revised allocations, and the process and procedures for modifying their original PY 2018 grant submissions.

To announce the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) new electronic tool, mySkills, myFuture, which will enable previously employed job seekers to match their occupational skills and experiences with the skills needed in other occupations, in order to enhance their career mobility and economic prospects.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2019 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of 2019 BAM data.

To request Area of Substantial Unemployment (ASU) designations in each state as defined in the WIA in order to allot funds under the Act for the period beginning July 1, 2011.

To provide guidance to State Workforce Agencies regarding FY 2019 annual grant allocations for foreign labor certification activities.